American Heartland Fish Products abandons exporting Asian carp, making meal and oil instead
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Plain Dealer] By Jim Suhr - August 25, 2014 -
Grafton, Ill.,When they arrive at the processing plant, the fish that have been cursed as a menace to American lakes and rivers are raked onto a conveyer belt, some of them still flopping.
Brought by the boatload to this facility north of St. Louis, the Asian carp quickly meet a gruesome fate: They are ground to a bloody pulp in a maze of machines that churn their bony bodies into dehydrated meal and fish oil.
American Heartland originally targeted exports to China but turned to the domestic market when a contract fizzled. Now some experts say a recent fall-off in the world’s anchovy supplies could open a new market for carp as a replacement in animal feed.
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